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Enterprising Linde
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Healer, Author, Radio Host
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"Welcome . . . to Health, Mind, and Body . . . on 91.7 FM KALW, Information Radio for the San Francisco Bay Area . . .
On the program we explore points and points-of-view along the entire spectrum of health care . . . from liver transplants to faith healing.
And I'm your host . . . Dr. Paul Linde."
In the autumn of 2001, shortly after the 9/11 tragedy, I was interviewed by public radio veteran Alan Farley on his KALW program "Book Talk", discussing my then just-released book, "Of Spirits and Madness: An American Psychiatrist in Africa." Almost on a lark, after the interview, I asked Alan how it was that beginners like myself could break into the radio business. Specifically I told him that I wanted to produce and host my own health-related program. He promised nothing except to tell me that he would discuss the possibility with KALW's general manager Nicole Sawaya.
Two things were working to my advantage. One is that their local health program, "Health News and Views" had gone off the air recently when its eminent host, Helen Fruchtmann, had retired after many, many years. Two is that, as a psychiatrist and a physician, I possessed more than 15 years of working on the front lines of health care. Two months later, Alan called me to set up an audition, a mock program. I had already prepared to interview my friend and colleague, Dr. Steve Dominy, about his work in a methadone maintenance clinic. It went reasonably well and I got the (volunteer) job as producer and host of the program, "Health, Mind, and Body" on 91.7 FM KALW, Information Radio for the greater San Francisco Bay Area.
Since January of 2002, I have produced and hosted this 15-minute prerecorded program for KALW 91.7 FM, one of San Francisco's public radio station.
The program has aired every Thursday evening from 7:45 p.m. until 8 p.m. Pacific Time on 91.7 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area. The audience, ranging from parts of Napa and Marin counties down through San Franciso, San Mateo, Alameda, and Contra Costa counties, is estimated at approximately 150,000 people with an average quarterly hour listenership of roughly 4,000 listeners.
I picked such a broad title so that I could interview nearly anyone. I've had the good fortune to interview such luminaries as Andrew Weil, Andrew Solomon, Irv Yalom, and Atul Gawande. Celebrities or not, my guests and I do our darndest to have fun and make the dissemination of critical public health information both entertaining and informative.
The program is broadcast on streaming audio every Thursday evening at 7:45 p.m. Pacific Time via their web site. To navigate yourself over there, just click on this link www.kalw.org
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